Kant on pleasure and judgment : a developmental and interpretive account / Alexander Rueger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rueger, Alexander, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Judgment (Logic).

Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.

Kant, Immanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Were there interactions between the development of Kant's aesthetics and the development of his moral philosophy? How did Kant view pleasure and displeasure and what role did they play in the formation of his system of the faculties? In this book, Alexander Rueger situates Kant's account of pleasure and displeasure in its eighteenth-century context, with special attention to Leibniz, Wolff, Crusius, and Mendelssohn. He traces the development of Kant's views on pleasure from the 1770s to his Critique of Aesthetic Judgment in 1790, and shows that throughout, Kant understood pleasure as the satisfaction of faculty interests. The significance of this theory for the completion of Kant's critical system in the third Critique is discussed in detail. Rueger's study illuminates both the role of pleasure and displeasure in Kant's thought, and their important connections to the power of judgment

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Imprints page

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 The Early Reception of the Third Critique

2 The Completion of the System of the Powers of the Mind, 1770-1790

2.1 The Completion of a Long-Standing Project?

2.2 What ''Systematic Unity'' Does Not Mean

2.3 The Selection Criterion for Inclusion in the System

2.4 The Table of Faculties

2.5 The Proof of Completeness

2.6 Architectonic Problems

2.7 The Development of the System in the 1770s

3 Kant's Theory of the Feeling of Pleasure and Displeasure (I)

3.1 Background and Development: Wolff, Mendelssohn, and Kant

3.2 The Transcendental Definition of Pleasure and the Satisfaction of Faculty Interests

4 Kant's Theory of the Feeling of Pleasure and Displeasure (II)

4.1 What Pleasure Is Not

4.2 An Alternative Theory of Pleasure

5 Consequences of the Theory

5.1 'Judging Precedes Pleasure' and the Determining Ground of Judgments of Taste

5.2 From the Pleasure of Taste to a New Faculty

6 The Principle(s) of the Power of Judgment

6.1 Two Versions of One Principle?

6.2 The Principle of Systematicity: Its Introduction and Function

6.3 The Power of Judgment and Rules of Apprehension

7 The Interest of the Reflecting Power of Judgment and the Deduction of Judgments of Taste

7.1 What Is the Interest of the Faculty of Reflecting Judgment?

7.2 ''Cognition in General''

7.3 The Comparison Model

7.4 The Deduction of Judgments of Taste

7.5 Problems with an 'Intuitive Principle': Mistaken Judgments of Taste

7.6 ''Taste as a Kind of sensus communis''

7.7 Conclusion

8 The Imagination in Its Freedom

8.1 Problems with the 'Free Play' of the Faculties

8.2 The Freedom of the Imagination, Genius, and Taste

8.3 The Antinomy of Taste

8.4 Symbolizations of the Ideas of a Supersensible Ground

8.5 Concluding Remark

9 The Transition from Nature to Freedom

9.1 Teleology: The Logical Transition

9.2 The New 'Gulf'

9.3 The Aesthetic Transition

Conclusion: The Autonomy of Taste

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Apr 2024).

ISBN:

9781009380393

1009380397

9781009380362

1009380362